{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2014/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2014/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Orders which are kinship care orders",
  "text": "(1) In section 71, “kinship care order” means—\n(a) an order under section 11(1) of the 1995 Act which gives to a qualifying person the right mentioned in section 2(1)(a) of that Act in relation to a child,\n(b) a residence order which has the effect that a child is to live with, or live predominantly with, a qualifying person, or\n(c) an order under section 11(1) of the 1995 Act appointing a qualifying person as a guardian of a child.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a “qualifying person” is a person who, at the time the order is made—\n(a) is related to the child,\n(b) is a friend or acquaintance of a person related to the child, or\n(c) has such other relationship to, or connection with, the child as the Scottish Ministers may by order specify.\n(3) But a parent of a child is not a “qualifying person” for the purposes of subsection (1).\n(4) The references in subsection (2) to a person who is related to a child include a person who is—\n(a) married to or in a civil partnership with a person who is related to the child,\n(b) related to the child by the half blood.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 1.8.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/131, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/8/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:13.459183+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}